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File - In this Oct. 2, 2009, file photo, a dead almond crop is seen in California's Westland Water District in Fresno, Calif. NASA scientists have begun deploying satellites and other advanced technology to help California water officials assess the state's record drought and better manage it, officials said Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. California's relationship with NASA began shortly after the dry year of 2009, when officials sought answers to problems exacerbated by the lack of rain and snow, such as the sinking land. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels, File)
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File - In this Feb. 14, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama tours a local farm that has been affected by drought with Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown, left, Joe Del Bosque, Empresas Del Bosque, Inc., right, and Maria Gloria Del Bosque, Empresas Del Bosque, Inc., in Los Banos, Calif. NASA scientists have begun deploying satellites and other advanced technology to help California water officials assess the state's record drought and better manage it, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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Mark and Barbara Albanese fill sand bags to protect their home from the possible flooding ahead of an expected rain storm in Azusa,Calif. on Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014. In anticipation of the first substantial winter storm system in drought-stricken California, residents of foothill communities picked up sandbags at fire stations and city yards to protect their homes on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )
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In this May 5, 2011 photo provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, three of the 80 beehives on Brookview Farm in Manakin-Sabot, Va., are seen. The USDA hopes to help honeybees by providing $3 million to farmers and ranchers in five states to improve their pastures. It turns out that dairy cows and bees like many of the same plants. (AP Photo/USDA, Lance Cheung)
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FILE -- In this photo taken March 7, 2012, and provided by Sandy Buckley, the head of a dead orca whale is examined by Joe Gaydos, left, director and chief scientist of the SeaDoc Society, Dyanna Lambourn, right, Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife marine mammal research biologist and Albert Shepard at the University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs, in Friday Harbor, Wash. When the 3-year-old endangered orca washed ashore in Washington state battered, bloodied and bruised in February of 2012, her death fueled a mystery over what killed her. Two years later, investigators say they don't know for certain what caused blunt force trauma to the animal's head and neck.(AP Photo/Sandy Buckley, File)
